Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-10-13
CULTIVATE THE SOIL.

For the TINES.
While we cannot make our calcula
tons from the meager crops of this year
as criterion of the future, we can make
safe and certain deductions from the
portions of Kansas eastward, and also
westward of us, rains and abundant
crops in localities where heretofore nc
expectations were had of crops.
There is prevalent spirit in the PEG.
pie which bids them come to Kansas, and
they are coming. There is not enough
| energy thrown into the farm work OF
this country; too many men come here
and see the vim and drive of our towns,
and lose their identity as farmers, and
very enormously engage in some business
in the cities. This is a sad mistake,
made by many men. They mistake the
idea of preference, and think that they
will engage in some more laudable enter
prise than to continue to till the soil. 1t
should not remain for the writer to call
the attention to fact so we'll known
among men that there is no avocation SO
healthful, so pleasant, and SO profitable
as well regulated farm, home and all in
dustries connected Herewith. There is
no man no matter what his vocation who
has the same facilities for real genuine
happiness the farmer has. He is presi-
dent, professor, preacher, lawyer and to
a very great extent doctor in his own
home and about his own premises. Ev-
cry man knows that these broad acres
must be cultivated, and there is no other
thing not done that we are as sure of as
this. We are not sure that it is necessa-
ry to build large and extravigant hotels,
nor too expensive colleges. There is no
certainty that it is necessary to build
street cars, but it is well established
fact, that these lands, now unOccupied,
must be cultivated, and without this
there is certainty of other results
which is far from that which we all de-
sire
Our market should be supplied from
the homes around and about the city,
and this will be; but the country people
are slow to realize the fact that they are
the persons upon whom this local enter
prise depends. We can point out one
proof demonstrated, in the sale and prod.
uct of watermelOns. Let few farmers.
or rather those people who are just open
ing out their farms, raise all the vegeta
bles that our market demands and soon
the shipping of the same will cease.
The much written upon subject of SUI
gar cane growth and manufacture of
sugar is another enterprise which the
people can at once take hold of, and the
farmer is the party to urge that step, and
agree to grow the cane at once, and by
SO doing make their first crops valuable.
The present outlook at this time predicts
that there will be a wonderful influx, and
that the railroads will be here next sum-
mer and they will invite the people to
double energy. Let the farmer and those
who intend to engage in that labor, call
the farmers together and devise plans to
operate their farms, and suggestions be
made AS to what course ~ pursue by
which meal.s they can most rapidly de-
vclope the agricultural interests of the
country. There seems to be many of
little faith. These persons should study,
and think and reason from their observa-
tiOns of the portions of country which
only few years since was as destitute as
this is now of products. Talk more about
what shall we plant. and what shall we
sow. rather than what we can get for our
claims, and what towns shall we invest
our last dollar in OBSERVER.